Word: seale
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...Abraham Ribicoffs Governmental Affairs Committee will make its fourth inquiry, encompassing Lance's confirmation hearing in January, into his fitness to serve as OMB director. The last hearing (TIME, Aug. 8) was a love feast; as a committee member later put it, Lance was given a "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval." Having looked foolish in the past, the committee's members can be expected to treat Lance much less gingerly this time around. Chairman Ribicoff and the Southern Democrats apparently remain in Lance's corner, but Republicans Charles Percy, Jacob Javits and John Heinz will likely...
...reason, says Nemiroff, is a combination of coldness, which lowers the body's need for oxygen, and an old mammalian response known as the diving reflex. The reflex was studied in the 1930s in diving mammals, like the porpoise and seal, which can remain submerged without breathing for periods of 20 minutes or more. And, confirms Nemiroff, the same automatic response works in humans as well. Triggered by held breath and cold water on the face, the diving reflex slows the heartbeat and the flow of blood to the skin, muscles and other tissues that are relatively resistant...
...Seal of Approval. To the surprise of almost everyone at the hearing, the greatest heat came from the Senators' eagerness to heap praise on the budget director. In a remarkable turnaround from the deep concern that many of them had expressed only three days earlier about Lance's business affairs, they lobbed soft questions at him, asked even gentler follow-ups, and accepted his answers at face value. Ohio Democrat John Glenn wondered whether "Lance's assets include his closeness to President Carter." Continued Glenn: "None of us can answer that. I will skip that...
...reason for the influx of foreign cash has been Switzerland's enviable history of territorial neutrality. But in the postwar decades an equally big attraction has been the hermetic seal imposed by Swiss officials on banking activity-reinforced with maximum fines of $20,000 or jail sentences for revealing details of a customer's account. Tax-shy foreigners also know that under Swiss law, tax evasion is considered a civil rather than a criminal offense, which means that Swiss bankers are expressly forbidden to cooperate with investigators from abroad. (A new bilateral treaty with the U.S. on cooperation...
...fund-raiser for the United Farm Workers which he attended because after all, his parents were grape pickers back in California. The friend said the cartoon was appropriate for Paco, so he had hung it on his wall next to the stark black eagle of UFW union seal. He used to chuckle at it every now and then without really knowing...